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Peptic   /pˈɛptɪk/   Listen
Peptic

adjective
1.
Relating to or promoting digestion.



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"Peptic" Quotes from Famous Books



... dictates, and demonstration is neglected. Much of this instruction is enforced by degradation and terror; and the pupil, at an early age, is compelled to swallow doctrines which he is unable to comprehend, and consequently cannot digest, except through the peptic assistance of the scourge: and which, when matured by manhood, and enlightened by reason, ...
— On the Nature of Thought - or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence • John Haslam
... 394. When I wrote the above passage, I was not aware that Krukenberg ('Untersuchungen a. d. physiol. Inst. d. Univ. Heidelberg,' Bd. ii. p. 37, 1877) had previously investigated the digestive juice of Lumbricus. He states that it contains a peptic, and diastatic, as well as ...
— The Formation of Vegetable Mould through the action of worms with • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Peptic" :   digestion, pepsin


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